The NEW Magic Mountain

slatham · Jan 27, 2023

Luckily they did a minimal groom yesterday so most trails were left to properly drain and thus had better material for the groomers to work with for today. That will matter less tomorrow with a 2nd groom. Skied Potter after patrol manually broke the crust, and then helped on Pixie Dust. Decent snow under crust. They plan a major groom tonight and I saw the yellow cat coming down Tali as I left around 5:30. Hopefully enough base to allow that and others like Sorcerer to open.

Good conditions considering, and tomorrow will not suck especially with warmer temps softening things up,

JoeB-Z · Jan 28, 2023

It was fine yesterday and I presume better today. I'm skipping today because they hit the ticket limit and I hate lines. In addition to Wizard, Trick skied nicely. Any reports on Talisman and Sorceror after grooming? How about Magician?

RustyGroomer · Jan 28, 2023

Super fun day. Broomstick to Magician was open. Talisman Sorcerer too. Sleeve skied great as always.

Crowded but not terrible by any means. Trails certainly were not.

NYDB · Jan 28, 2023

It was great today. and definitely a good business day for the mountain.

the weather was superb and the snow was great where the groomer hit it and skiers and riders were chopping up some of the ungroomed on the sides which softened up a bunch by end of day as well.

hard freeze tonight will probably stiffen up some of the ungroomed again but should be a good day Sunday

RustyGroomer · Jan 29, 2023

Waiting for it to warm up a bit & heading over. Anyone else?

Bubba · Feb 1, 2023

RustyGroomer said:
Waiting for it to warm up a bit & heading over. Anyone else?

Well Sunday turned out to be a helluva day. Got some of the crust broken up to ski some steep favorites. Had to stay on your toes, but Black Line was a blast and Tali and Sorcerer skied great. That base isn’t going anywhere for a while. Just saw they blew in Upper Wizard and the Chute and have moved on to Tali. We’ll need a storm to get back on the steep naturals as it’s likely frozen coral reef at this point. All and all the weekend went way above expectations.

MG Skier · Feb 2, 2023

I fortunately have responsibilities on Saturday, I'll aim to get back to Magic on Sunday. 32 degrees will feel warm in comparison.

RustyGroomer · Feb 2, 2023

I may have "responsibilities" as well. Meaning i'm too much a wimp to ski on a groomer day in the real cold. Sunday looks like it could be a fine day...

Til then..

My friends & i, late 80's. Just restored from the vault.

MG Skier · Feb 2, 2023

I can ski that cold, but I will choose not to!
Sunday it is!

tumbler · Feb 2, 2023

Great stuff in that video! Love old tricks, wish I saw more of them on the hill.

Smellytele · Feb 2, 2023

RustyGroomer said:
I may have "responsibilities" as well. Meaning i'm too much a wimp to ski on a groomer day in the real cold. Sunday looks like it could be a fine day...

Til then..

My friends & i, late 80's. Just restored from the vault.

Which one is you?
Amazing we are all alive after years with out helmets.

RustyGroomer · Feb 2, 2023

My best “scenes” are the heli-daffy attempt along with the double heli attempt in my Nevica jacket.

ne_skier · Feb 2, 2023

MG Skier said:
I can ski that cold, but I will choose not to!
Sunday it is!

Obligations don't allow for this option for me, I will freeze to death and have fun doing it

Shredmonkey254 · Feb 2, 2023

RustyGroomer said:
My best “scenes” are the heli-daffy attempt along with the double heli attempt in my Nevica jacket.

Loved skiing there back then! That snowboarder is pretty good for late 80’s, wondering if you knew him. Did he start wearing a one piece outfit with bats all over it? We used to all him “Batman, The Smurf” in the lift line while playing Trivial Pursuit for bags of Smartfood which were thrown from lifeguard chairs by the folks who organized the lift line and yelled out the questions. Good times!

RustyGroomer · Feb 3, 2023

I knew or know everyone in that video. This guy is definitely not the Batman. Don't remember him. I'm also confident this crew ate more Smartfood & Twix bars than any in Magic history.

Very fun times.

Harvey · Feb 3, 2023

RustyGroomer said:
I may have "responsibilities" as well. Meaning i'm too much a wimp to ski on a groomer day in the real cold. Sunday looks like it could be a fine day...

Til then..

My friends & i, late 80's. Just restored from the vault.

Rusty this is so cool.

I want to share this in our forum too (hope that is ok) but I am getting this:

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Any ideas?

RustyGroomer · Feb 3, 2023

It's a Youtube vid so my buddy who created it would encourage sharing i'd think. As far as how? I just copied youtube link.

Smellytele · Feb 5, 2023

Was there today. Started out cold and firm but the sun came out around 12:30 and the afternoon was great, Skied twilight zone a couple of times and goniff glades and both were great. Best runs of the day, Also Red line skied great after the magic freestyle team skied it twice to break up the crust. I thanked them from the lift.

Smellytele · Feb 5, 2023

Did see an idiot kid jump off the lift right above Witch. Boarded down to witch to the waiting patrollers who were hanging out with the freestyle folks.

ne_skier · Feb 6, 2023

Not even sure how’d you enjoyably get down without being clipped by the snowmaking pipe

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